MBS Professor Dr. Marc-Michael Bergfeld and MBS Lecturer Johannes Ritz have published two chapters in the first ever case study book about family business in Latin America. Johannes Ritz, lecturer of family business and Ph.D. candidate […]
Dr. Marc-Michael H. Bergfeld, Professor for Family Firms at Munich Business School, spoke at the 20th edition of the Family Business Australia’s National Conference in Alice Springs. Family Business Australia is the country’s leading association […]
MBS Professor Dr. Marc-Michael Bergfeld, a distinguished expert in the family business field, will give an adviser masterclass at the Family Business Australia’s 2018 National Conference, taking place in Alice Springs, Australia, in September. During […]
Munich Business School was present again at the 14th Family Enterprise Research Conference, this year hosted at Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara, Mexico. MBS Family Business expert Johannes Ritz presented two research projects of the Courage […]
For the 4th time already, the Courage Center for Global Family Firms at Munich Business School hosted the International Family Business Summit in Ecuador from June 5 to 7. Over 300 local business families participated […]
Since 2014, a strategic alliance between the Courage Group – through the Courage Center of Global Family Firms at Munich Business School – and the Ecuadorian-German Chamber of Industries has been in force, with the […]
The final session of the threepart “Family Affairs: The Joy and Challenges of Entering, Leading, Changing, and Exiting Your Familyʼs Business” alumni lecture series, taking place on April 26, focused on “Phase x – growing […]
Yesterday’s “Family Affairs” event marked the second part of the four-part lecture series that focuses on the joy and challenges of entering, leading, changing, and exiting a family business. The series features several MBS alumni […]
Yesterday’s “Family Affairs” event marked the beginning of a four-part lecture series at MBS that focuses on the joy and challenges of entering, leading, changing, and exiting a family business. The series will feature several […]
For a long time, private equity funds and family businesses have been like water and fire. The private equity funds were the bad guys, said the family businesses, and the family businesses were the targets, […]
Starting in January 2018, Munich Business School (MBS) will launch an event series focusing on the challenges of family businesses, organized by MBS Alumni Relations, MBS graduates Dr. Natalie Djodat and Robin Knopf, as well […]
Last week, a group of family entrepreneurs and top managers from Latin America visited the Courage Center at Munich Business School. The students came from Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Peru, […]
Dr. Marc-Michael H. Bergfeld, Professor for Family Firms at Munich Business School, spoke at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2017 in Atlanta, USA. The Academy of Management Annual Meeting, held each year in August, […]
The following article is an excerpt of Bergfeld/ Bannys/ Bergfeld (2017): Resilient Family Business Systems. Achieving Longevity by Aligning Portfolio Strategies with Family Capabilities, to be presented at the Academy of Management Conference 2017, a […]
The academic year of 2016/17 is a truly special one for Munich Business School: MBS celebrates its 25th anniversary. To mark the jubilee, we would like to present you 25 people from the “MBS cosmos” […]
Munich Business School has recently published two new working papers dealing with topics related to family business: The Internationalization of German Family Firms to Latin America In their working paper An Exploratory Approach to the […]
For the 3rd consecutive year, the MBS Courage Center of Global Family Firms organized the International Family Business Summit in Ecuador on May 9th in Quito and on May 11th in Guayaquil. This year, apart […]
How do some family companies go on for centuries while others die early? What is the secret of a long corporate life? Is there an influence played by culture? What can the unique Japanese approach […]
The MBS Master International Week is one proof that internationality is not only taught, but also actively put into reality at Munich Business School. This year, the event that features several distinguished guest lecturers from […]
As reported here, a team of MBS Master International Business students participated in the Family Enterprise Case Competition (FECC 2017), hosted by Grossman School of Business, a University of Vermont department. Contending in the competition […]
Team of MBS Students Contends in Family Enterprise Case Competition A team of Munich Business School students is currently taking part in the Family Enterprise Case Competition 2017 (FECC 2017), organized by Grossman School of […]
How a Deep Conversation about “Happiness” Can Nurture Constructive Discussions about Succession Planning between Senior Generations and the Generation Y A paradox is a sentence in logic that cannot be true but also cannot be […]
On Friday, Munich Business School hosted a Christmas Dinner for Family Business leaders and entrepreneurs from the MBS universe. About 50 alumni and current students with family business and entrepreneurial backgrounds had come to the […]
Yesterday’s guest lecture at MBS made dozens of Bachelor and Master students feel reminded of their childhood: Lecturer Prof. Dr. Patricia Kraft had invited Christian Pau, Senior Sales Director Europe Central at LEGO Group, to […]
Online magazine Family Capital, the leading publication for global family offices and billionaire family business owners, has published a viewpoint by MBS lecturer and thought leader in family business, Prof. Dr. Marc-Michael Bergfeld. The article focuses […]
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